Stargazer

Stargazer
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Far out, in the uncharted backwaters
Of the unfashionable end
Of the western spiral arm of the habitable galaxy
Lies a small spec of a yellow sun
Past which I travel as I close my third eye
And enter the resonating silence of inner space
Into a hall of mirrors and heavenly mirages
Of double nebulae dancing in the dark
Illusions shimmering in cosmic time

I travel on a bubble of thought faster than
The speed of light, bending past the Sun
Arching past comets slingshot through Oort clouds
Floating on the outer horizons of the Milky Way
Tugged by storms and pushed by galactic tides
I am catapulted toward the Eagle Nebula
Navigating deftly through stellar storms
Exploding stars and phantasmagoric supernovae
Collapsing into the fatal attraction of dancing black holes
I pierce the Omega Centauri and pause for a while

I swim through the wrinkles in space-time
Floating in the dark energy of quintessence
Navigating through the Fifth dimension and beyond
Repelled by the gods of gravity across fragmented horizons
Existing in the uncertainty of space-time fuzziness
As Gravitons fight the perpetual battle
Of creation and annihilation
I look back through the cosmic lens at childhood
Back when the stars and galaxies were but gleams
In nature’s eye, beautiful, hostile, dangerous

Through the tunnel of silent inner space
I hear the distant echoes of the primordial birth
And the birth before this birth
And death before this death in the eternal
Cycle of cosmic oscillation, wave after wave after wave
Of creation, preservation, destruction
Destruction, preservation and creation
Of parallel multidimensional ekpyrotic universes
Without a beginning, without a final end
Where knowledge always existed, before you him and Einstein
Floating in the super-consciousness of the Cosmic I

O Great Spirit, take me
Take me into you.